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ASAE Announces Passing of CEO John H. Graham IV, FASAE, CAE

Associations Now

During his tenure, which began August 1, 2003, ASAE more than doubled its membership and developed a wealth of innovative products and services to benefit association professionals and their partners. The Graham family will hold a private service for John in Pennsylvania and a memorial service in Washington, DC, will follow.

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Association Community Floods Social Media With Tributes to ASAE’s Graham

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President and CEO of ASAE since 2003, Graham died early Monday after a battle with cancer. The ASAE statement noted that the Graham family will hold a private service in Pennsylvania. The association world took to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social platforms this week to remember John Graham.

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4 Stories about Association Membership

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Zero in on Your Unengaged Members By Joe Rominiecki via AssociationsNow The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants created a member engagement metric that is elegant in its simplicity. million in 2003. Yet two thirds of those executives said their organizations were not tracking member engagement at all.

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Printing Trade Group ‘Right-Sizes,’ Restructures as Industry Faces Major Change

Associations Now

Employment in the industry has fallen off by more than 200,000 since 2003, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The report also suggested that PIA is considering a move from its headquarters in Sewickley, Pennsylvania—a suburb of Pittsburgh—to offices in the city.

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Sift Skills: The Value of Big Data for Associations

Associations Now

And even after the organization hired a $6,000-a-week consultant in 2003 to learn about making data-based business decisions, Dorman wasn’t convinced it would lead to any long-term benefit. “At We used to just base them on intuition,” says Dorman, TMA’s chief operating officer. At the time, I thought that $6,000 was crazy money,” Dorman says.

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Infrastructure Group Warns of Slow Repairs to Nation’s Broken Bridges

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Pennsylvania is right behind with 3,770, but the state has improved its record, repairing around 1,200 bridges over the past five years. ARTBA says federal funding declined by 20 percent between 2003 and 2017.

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